Podcasts about The Tossers

Lee, Daniel, and their friend and fellow podcaster James Murphy talk about Ken Russell's "The Lair of the White Worm" (1988), based on a novel by some guy called Bram Stoker. Did Russell manage something better than the source material here? Just where does this film seem to fit into the history of British horror, and just how horny is this film anyway? The hosts also talk about what they've watched as of late. So get out your bagpipes, keep a spare mongoose handy, and join us on a giant snake hunt! "The Lair of the White Worm" IMDB  James' Bluesky James' Podcast James' Pateron Daniel's Bluesky Daniel's Podcast Daniel's Pateron Featured Music: Excerpts from the film's score by Stanislaw Syrewicz & "D'ampton Worm" by The Tossers.

Greetings, audient!David Lynch passed away, and Sagi insisted on embarrassing his memory and us by making a tribute pod.Of course an oeuvre analysis is not Tossers style, but we found a nice angle in comparing his The Lost Highway with David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. Both movies deal in the impasses and monstrosities of masculine desire, a shared theme that reveals a deep, informative, difference between the two directors, each using the literary device of the double in his own film, but in each director's own unique way, unique language. Jake saw this difference in the light of Nietzsche's old distinction, from The Birth of Tragedy, between the Apollonian and the Dionysian; Sagi suggests that Lynch to Cronenberg is like dream to trauma.We unpack this huge set of knots, and toss many more strands into the air besides.And there's a beautiful Nietzsche quote at the end! So......have a listen.Stars: Beast & Sovereign; Pervs 'R Us; Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais.

Husband and wife team Rupert and Verna chop up up Newcastle 3 Villa 0. Villa lose a game that was spoilt by referee Anthony Taylor, who sent off Jhon Duran far too quickly for most supporters, managers and pundits. Except the perfect idiots commentating and reviewing on Amazon Prime who all agreed Duran deserved it and then seemed thoroughly disappointed that 10 men Villa didn't play better in the remaining 70 mins against an excellent Newcastle. Wonderfully stupid and biased commentary.Mad dog Jason Tindall continues his centre spot-light desire, despite being a perma tanned 2 time mangerial loser The kinda game that make you question why your watch Amazon Prime football and the PremiershipWell done Antony Taylor - a new high in his peacocking, preening career

Dear, stubborn, listener,Are you still there?For our weirdly unlikely 50th Episode -- mine and Jake's Gold Anniversary or something(?) -- we went populist. Donald Trump's re-election is now fact, but the meaning of that fact remains to be articulated, engaged-with.We seem to be in agreement that more than Trump's winning the elections, the Democratic party lost it. Jake calls it 'libtardation;' we think it is a new socio-political category. Were they ever an alternative? Trump's campaign (among others) exposed long-standing hypocrisies surrounding all the things they care about. The people of America were faced with an alternative between a fake solution that has proven itself to be ineffectual, and a visceral expression of rage that had not been seen before.Woke leftism plays a role we will discuss at length in this episode; both an agent and a symptom of said hypocrisies. A kind of Wittgensteinian language game, as Jack puts it, which rewards further vivisections of ressentiment in the 'soul' of the individual, as Sagi sees it. We show this in cancel culture and how social media discourses become toxic and destructive to discourse (where words and signs of value are being cancelled left and right, pun intended). Not to mention stuff like 'DEI'  and its policing of "diversity" "equity" and "inclusion" -- three values abused by the left, mined hollow by woke discourse until it is too toxic to consider, and left ripe for the Bannons of America to prove that these values were always inherently empty.This emptiness, of course, is the point of the Democratic-Republican dance in a United States that has never seriously dealt with its 'spirit', that is, the contradictions that are haunting this 'manifest destiny' crowd form the first. One says 'Justice' and the other says 'Power'; and so long as Justice keeps ridiculing and denying the role of power in Justice -- what Derrida called the force of Law -- they leave the values to rot from within until it's the other partner's turn to say "hey this value is defunct, so let's give up on it altogether."As Andy put it, Americans were given a choice between two right wing parties...There's a lot more we talked about there. Have a listen, dear audient (and despair..)Stars: WWJD; Beast & Sovereign; Marx Grudge....*Thumbnail courtesy of Arash Akhgari (and Sagi).

Patricia has good news about her hoist. Olive and Brigid discuss means testing for carers. Callers describe being attacked by people tossing rocks at their houses. Prue got a polling card for her late husband. Betty got all the posters from her area removed. Brian discusses the closure of Veritas.

Alan Gardner is joined on the pod by Andrew Miller and Cameron Ponsonby to talk through England's 3-1 T20I series win the Caribbean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode we discuss the absurdity of the taboo against cultural appropriation. Introducing specific examples like which Halloween costumes to wear, or which recipes you can and cannot cook, the Tossers argue that culture is itself appropriation, and thus the taboo attempts to inhibit something that can never be inhibited.To emphasize this universal necessity of cultural appropriation, we introduce theories of language.Jack introduces Wittgenstein's theory of language games and the impossibility of a private language.Jake introduces Derrida's theory of language in Monolingualism of the Other and the Prosthesis of Origin.Sagi makes sure that we do not simply define the ubiquity of cultural appropriation but study exactly why there is an attempt at re-appropriation that then bans certain people (always the original colonizer) from taking back again. By now, we hope you know what would Sagi do.We read some gorgeous passages by Jacques Derrida, and discuss why the N-word and blackness are limit cases, especially in America, for thinking about cultural appropriation.

Empowering Youth Through Service, with Jennifer Guynn, Pebble Tossers In this episode of the Good2Give Podcast, hosts Maria Walden and DePriest Waddy from the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia interview Jennifer Guynn, the founder and executive director of Pebble Tossers. Jen shares the origins and mission of Pebble Tossers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering […]

Today on Bailey & Johnny: We learned the difference between tossers and keepers in a relationship, we did a little Q&A about Tour de Rock because Bailey leaves on Saturday morning to ride across Vancouver Island and we shared the devastating news that we missed an eclipse last night… Thanks for supporting us through 500 episodes of Bailey & Johnny: The Podcast! Have a funny story to share? Voice memo us on social media and you could be included in the next episode.  Listen live weekdays 530 -10 am PST on the iHeartRadio app and 1073virginradio.ca

In a political climate of unbearable urgency, the Tossers ask: "What if we just stopped talking?"

In this episode, I'm joined by Lauren Singer, environmental activist, investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Trash is for Tossers. Lauren created and founded Trash is For Tossers, a resource for reducing your waste daily, Zero Waste inspiration, environmental education, and everyday actions that create a positive impact in 2014. Starting as a personal blog, Lauren documented her personal journey of reducing her waste to zero.Lauren, who started living a Zero Waste 2 years earlier in 2012, first went viral for fitting a year's worth of all of the waste she'd created in one 16oz mason jar. Nicknamed by her community as the “the girl with the trash jar”, Lauren went on to give a Ted Talk that brought the concept of Zero Waste to millions. In 2017, Lauren launched Package Free to create a united space for makers of sustainable products that helped to reduce waste, and to make the world less trashy one sustainable swap at a time. As the editorial arm of Package Free, Trash is for Tossers is a place for readers to be empowered with information and tools to reduce their waste and live in alignment with their environmental values.Lauren is now the managing partner at Overview Capital, a venture fund investing in businesses mitigating methane and other super pollutants at the earliest stages. “I realized all hope is not lost. Yes the climate has been changing, however we haven't been investing in the lever that we need to pull to stop warming now, and that lever is methane. We feel we're just at the beginning of a conversation, of re-focus, of shift into what actually matters in our lifetime which is stopping this methane.”Topics Covered:What inspired her passion for creating large scale environmental impactStarting her blog Trash is for TossersPractical tools on where to start with environmental impactDefining what it means to live a Zero Waste lifeThe motivation to create Package Free ShopStarting a fund to mitigate methane emissions through Overview CapitalWays to reduce methane on an individual and industrial level Guest Info:Lauren's InstagramLauren's Ted TalkTrash is for Tossers WebsiteGet in Touch:Benshen.co WebsiteBenshen MembershipBenshen.co InstagramRate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.

In this episode, we look at one of the longest running sitcoms in Televisual history (1987-1998), Married... with Children.Ostensibly a misogynistic pigpen ripe for retroactive cancelation, we  Tossers find the show delightful and read an unabashed radicality into the relentlessly bitter depiction of the horrors of married life .We bring up the Marxist tradition of family abolition to help think about the show's "study" of a starving lower middle-class family stuck together by  money they don't even have. Alongside the capitalist reproduction of labor, we think about the reproduction of gender norms. Whether it is the stupidity of the "hot blonde," the goober patheticness of the young man, Al's refusal to have sex with his wife, and Peggy's shameless desire to watch TV all day.Andy helps us read Peggy's refusal to feed her children, i.e., her refusal to be a good mother, as the most radical political action in the series.Jake keeps telling us that he identified, identifies, with Bud, and that nobody ever recognizes how violent everyone on the show is to him (Bud that is): mocking his (Bud's) inability to woo ladies.Jack takes us to  Ed O'Neil's future in Modern Family, helping us think of how different this future is form Ed's young, bitter pre-woke days.Sagi, our resident scholar on all things Pride, helps us understand the hardboiled confidence that resides beneath all the misfortune.  He also thinks about the show's tone in relation to the new Network Fox, and calls the show prophetic in the wake of a woke era that would never let this show air.Marx Grudge, Pervs R' Us are the main stars. 

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Jennifer Guynn. After years of career success as a real estate developer, Jen decided to step away to raise her three children. She describes this as a scary jump for her and her husband because she was making good money, and it would be an adjustment to live on one income. Fast forward to when their youngest child went off to Kindergarten, Jen was ready to head back to work. But she knew that whatever she decided to do next, it had to be worth it to take her away from the kids. She landed on taking a leap of faith by creating a non-profit with a friend, called Pebble Tossers. They were passionate about their mission to equip and empower youth to lead through service. So much so that they decided not to take salaries for a while. And, even when they eventually did, Jen's priority was to put the money back into building her team and the business. Together they have evolved Pebble Tossers into a successful and award-winning organization. As Co-founder and Executive Director of Pebble Tossers, Jen lives a life of servant leadership. She serves as a State Commissioner for Georgia Serves, the State Commission for Service and Volunteerism, and is Chair of the Service and Development Committee. Jen is a 21/64 Certified Philanthropic Advisor, a mentor at Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School, and has been named a Titan CEO as one of the 2023 and 2024 Georgia Titan 100 award winners.  She is an Atlanta native, serves on various boards and committees throughout Atlanta, and is married with three adult children and three rescue dogs (and two rescue grand dogs and a grand bunny).

Greetings, audient!Thanks for hanging in there. It can't be easy.This episode tackles the Tossers' own Marx Grudge Star -- come to collect its resentful dues. Karma imposes its menacing presence in the form of a book by Daniel Tutt, with the provocative title How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left got High on Nietzsche. A unique pleasure it was to host Jamie, who joins us from a more Frankfurt School angle, and helped reign-in Sagi by riposting some of his cheaper jabs at our buddy Karlo.So, as you can imagine, it was a grudge-bath. (Yep. Me no native English.)At their best, our discussions turned, and tossed, the treacherous soils and soilings of ressentiment, a Nietzschean concept used against the working class to repress any uprising (for it will be ridiculed as a "slave rebellion" I imagine). Tutt lays this at Nietzsche's feet, the more general claim being that Nietzsche's philosophy is a status-quo machine, and/or an anti-revolutionary one, in the sense that it puts the kaibosh on any universal equality, ideational and/or actual, as some kind of (secret, cunning) axiom.All this time we thought it was Reason -- turns out it was Nietzsche who was cunning.We also admittedly devolve to devote some uneasy attention to Tutt's notion of the parasite vis-a-vis the act of reading/interpreting Nietzsche, which, if we're lucky, seems to only stumble over its own feet (the identity of the parasite shifting constantly, something narrated but never engaged with). If we're not, then Tutt's bulldozers will show those parasites 'how a real parasite does it,' becoming tone-deaf to the metaphysical critique that underwrites Nietzsche's contempt towards humanist ideas of equality in the process.We will get into that. And so much more...Stay tuned, won't you, audient?Stars: Marx Grudge; WWJD

That's right, after four long years we have returned with a new St. Paddy's Special. This time we are talking about Flogging Molly's debut studio album, Swagger from the year 2000. New Major Awards EP - majorawards.bandcamp.comMerch Shop  - redbubble.com/people/punk-lotto-pod/shopJoin our Patreon to get bonus audio, videos, blog posts, and access to our Discord for only $1 at patreon.com/punklottopodPodcast platforms and social media links at linktr.ee/punklottopodCall our voicemail line: 202-688-PUNKLeave us a review and rating on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Song clips featured on this episode:The Pogues - The Sunnyside of the StreetFlogging Molly - Salty DogFlogging Molly - Selfish ManFlogging Molly - The 'Ol Beggars Bush 

It's Car Con Blarney! Tony Duggins, Aaron Duggins and Mike Pawla joined us for a chat from Million Yen Studios on Chicago's Northwest Side. (Thanks to Andy Gerber for the hospitality.)   In advance of the Tossers' annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration at Metro. The show's happening on Saturday 3/16 with openers Scott Lucas & The Married Men, Totally Cashed and The Chancers.   Covered in this episode: *“I'm just trying to impress my parents by doing this.” *The challenges of bringing the band together to do literally anything *”LESS JAW, MORE PAW!”*Beer *31 years and counting… what does the future look like for the Tossers? *The long shadow the Tossers have cast on Celtic-infused modern music *The Tossers and Chicago   This was an episode many years in the making. Thanks to the Tossers for being part of it! Car Con Carne (a Q101 podcast) is presented by Alex Ross Art. Visit Alex Ross on YouTube (@TheAlexRossArt) to keep up to date with one of the comics industry's most important and celebrated creators.   ****** I'm teaming up with the American Lung Association to help them save lives!    I've committed to climbing the steps at Soldier Field for the Fight For Air climb.    People of all ages and fitness levels climb the stairs to raise awareness and money to end lung disease. I hope you'll join me and help, because… when you can't breathe, nothing else matters.    Chicago Fight For Air Climb presented by United Healthcare Sunday, May 19th The stadium's outdoor route snakes up and down the stands, giving climbers a one-of-a-kind perspective of the legendary venue.   fightforairclimb.org/chicagoland.  As a special offer for my listeners, the Lung Association is giving $10 off your registration when you enter code CARNE at checkout. That's C-A-R-N-E for $10 off. See you on the stairs! ****   A smart home connects virtually all of the technology in your home.  With an Easy Automation-installed smart home system, you and your family can control nearly every device and system in the house in ways that are easy and fun to use.   Transform your living space with cutting-edge home automation. Experience seamless control over audio/video, lighting, climate, security, and more. Embrace the future of smart living – your home, your rules.   Get a quote by visiting Easy-automation.net, or call Dan at 630.730.3728 dSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scott's “solo” band —Scott Lucas & The Married Men— is actually a fairly large and open ended collective of Chicago music scene veterans and dyed in the wool lifers (it's also a close-knit family of friends, but we'll get to that). The list of bands that the members of The Married Men have been in (and continue to be in) could make up its own podcast series: The Tossers, Caviar, The Joy Poppers, Cisco Pike, The Cells, The Girls, A Band Called Horse, Sourball, Ness, and Jesus Christ! Our head hurts!! As we were saying — each member of The Married Men is a lifer with their own story to tell. But this isn't that episode. On THIS episode, Ben and Gabe catch up with the band at the Local H practice space as they get ready to practice for their first show in a year: Playing The Metro in Chicago on March 16 — opening for The Tossers at their annual St. Patrick's Day show. Topics include: Most of the bands that have already been listed, Double Door Halloween shows, how Randy created the first double Quarter Pounder with cheese, UFO, shitty videos, scary dolls, and THREE(!!!) rounds of Iron Maiden vs. The Replacements. This one is fairly chaotic. So watch out.

Ollie talks about Tahnee's leaked articles, Ruperts new found love, and I answer your questions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Tossers gave themselves  a rather impossible task: prove that  Barbie and Oppenheimer are the same movie. In typical Tosser fashion, we try to turn our failure into charm.  Our sometimes quiet podcaster Jack comes out of the woodwork to take some heavy hits at Christopher Nolan's directorial chops and to educate Sagi on the reason why teenage girls hate their mothers. Jake is really out to lunch in this one, he tries to talk about the phallus, he quotes other podcasts, and forgets Margot Robbie's name.Andy develops a  theory of the position of the Imaginary, Symbolic and the Real in Barbie. Ultimately concluding that cellulite is the Real. Sagi gives the most convincing praise of Barbie (which we all seemed to like better than Oppenheimer), explaining how this movie managed to survive all the possible insults that could have been hurled at it.We discuss various critiques from the left, we ask whether Oppenheimer is a Zionist, and we wonder what was going on with Emily Blunt and Ben Safdie.I would call this a light and enjoyable affair.

Tossers are back. We always come back. This time we compare the "comedy" stylings of Larry David and Louis C.K. The frame for this comparison is that they are both assholes, but they are assholes of a different color: one is Jewish and the other is Catholic. This introduces a discussion on the different way that they interact with the law and also the different way that they make us (or fail to make us) laugh. Jake dangles throughout the episode a complex thesis inspired by the work of Alenka Zupancic: the thesis, still undeveloped, is that because the Jew and the Catholic have a different relation to enjoyment (jouissance), they also have a different relation to comedy. Zupancic makes an interesting distinction between the joke and the comic sequence. The difference  is one of temporality. But it is not essential that the comic sequence be longer than the joke (thought it usually is). The temporal distinction concerns the time of satisfaction. A comic sequence carries satisfaction through its whole duration whereas the joke always comes to an end with satisfaction. This distinction allows us to consider  why Curb Your Enthusiasm is a much funnier show than Louie, whereas Louis C.K. is a better standup comedian than Larry David.  The idea here is that there is something about the humiliating Catholic position towards jouissance that ensures that Louis can only ever experience satisfaction as an end. Larry the Jew, on the other hand, can keep satisfaction alive.Sagi distinguishes Larry and Louis at the level of the law by describing Larry's relation as that of a wall, and Louis's as that of a hook. Sagi also helps us think about Louis C.K.'s cancel-worthy transgressions as behaviors that are deeply imbedded in the confessional exposure of Louie the show.Perhaps the most exciting element of this episode is the number of jokes we have to tell to get our point across.

Duncan James joins the TOSSER podcast this week with Ollie Skelton and Rupert Bugden! They discuss Duncan's pretty privilege, their post MAFS love triangle and is it ever okay to lie in a relationship? Support the show: patreon.com/TOSSERPODCAST Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ollie is joined by Rupert Bugden as they co-host this weeks instalment of TOSSER! They give advice to next years MAFS contestants, discuss how drinking out of your hands could save you money and the accusation from Ollie's Mum regarding his crusty socks drawer. Support the show: patreon.com/TOSSERPODCAST Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Breaking MLB News and what it could mean for the Mariners & Little Piggy Tossers. Kraken Goalie: Philipp Grubauer & One Last Thing.

The Mariners wrapped up Cactus League play yesterday, which means, the season is almost here! Little Piggy Tossers is jam packed today with Brock Purdy news, Lamar Jackson talks and Aaron Rodgers nonsense. The Mariners will unveil their City Connect uniforms this spring and we have some ideas!

A look at CJ Stroud, Anthony Richardson and Jalen Carter and Draftmas is almost here! Zags and Bruins tonight might be the matchup of the tourney thus far. Little Piggy tossers: Lamar Jackson and the "C" word.

In ep221 it's just the lads. Tom talks about his recent visit to the Tip Top Lounge to see The Tossers, while Neil traveled to Highland Park to help his friend Mike (Sexy Baby Records/Loud Pizza) get ready for the opening of his new brick and mortar record store. We also talk about the upcoming April Record Store Day and Punk Rock Bowling. With songs by The Oppressed, Ten Second March, The Tossers, The Fall, 999, The Cortina's, Neon Hearts and The Queers.

WBC Madness takes over while basketball takes a break and Japan beat Mexico last night in one of the best games ever! USA vs Japan for the Championship tonight! Little Piggy tossers: Lamar Jackson and the collusion claims, plus Chuck's 4 things.

Chuck has figured out the light switches in the studio, we think. (That's normally Bucky's job!) Jarran Reed is returning to the Seahawks as the defensive changes continue for the Hawks. Little Piggy Tossers: Will today be the day Aaron Rodgers makes a choice and are we irritated that he's doing this? Photo Day was yesterday and we're exhausted!

The Seahawks made a big splash on day 1 of free agency by signing Dre'mont Jones and he's stoked to be in Seattle! In today's Little Piggy Tossers, we discuss the mystery that is Aaron Rodgers. Our brackets are starting to get filled out...

We cover the top 8 sports stories of the day- hint: most of them involve brackets and Free Agency. Little Piggy Tossers: Lamar Jackson threatens to sit out and Aaron Rodgers is holding two teams hostage with his indecision. It's almost Tampering o'Clock!

Let's be honest, this is all just prepapration for a crazy Monday! March Madness, tampering and more daylight, ahhhhh! Little Piggy Tossers is all sorts of busy this offseason. The Pac-12 tourney continues, sorry Cougs...

We cover the top 8 sports stories of the day in the Ocho. Little Piggy Tossers was active yesterday, so what's next? Is West Coast basketball here to stay this time?

The Seahawks signed Geno Smith to a new deal and we discuss. With one more QB locked up for the 2024 season, what does that mean for the rest of the QB market? Geno's deal- do we like it?

Root Sports Mariners PxP man, Dave Sims joins Chuck and Buck from Peoria and gives his thoughts on Jarred Kelenic, new MLB rules and that Cal home run! Little Piggy Tossers is heating up with Derek Carr heading to the Saints. What's next for Geno, Jones, Jackson & Rodgers? We wrap up the show with One Last Thing.

Kraken Audio Network's studio host, Mike Benton joins the show to talk about last night's win and whether or not the Kraken should make any moves ahead of today's deadline. It's a draft prospect edition of Little Piggy Tossers and Logan Gilbert debuted a new pitch yesterday!

We cover the top 8 sports stories of the day in the Ocho. Little Piggy Tossers are still making headlines! The NHL Trade deadline is tomorrow and it's not looking like the Kraken are making any moves, should they?

Chuck and Buck are back from a week at Mariners Spring Training in Peoria, AZ. Little Piggy tossers- Chicago looking to move out of the #1 spot? Derek Carr wants $35 million and Aaron Rodgers has emerged from the darkness. Coach Bucky weighs in on Jarred Kelenic, the Kraken are struggling and secrets of a keeper.

It's a special version of Little Piggy Tossers as we try to predict where free agent WBs will land this offseason. Seattle Kraken all-star, Matty Beniers joins the show and we wrap up the week with the Booze News!

Our Spring Training preview continues and today we discuss Julio amongst other things. In today's episode of Little Piggy Tossers, Aaron Rodgers had some choice words for reporters, we discuss. The Dawgs beat the Ducks in an OT thriller and we laugh at Bucky... but not loudly.

Happy Valentine's Day! You'll never guess the gift we are all dreaming of! MLB has made it official- 10 run rules and ghost runners. We discuss Aaron Rodgers dark hole and Derek Carr's release in today's Little Piggy Tossers.

LeBron set a new record as the NBA leading point scorer last night and we discuss. What did we think? Why are some people diminishing the accomplishment? American Idle is down to the Sweet 6! Aaron Rodgers is heading off to the darkness in today's LPT.

We cover the top 8 sports stories of the day in the Ocho. Today's Little Piggy Tossers reflects on the fallout of Tom Brady's retirement and what it means for the rest of the league. UW plays UCLA tonight and Bill Walton is a treasure please.

We cover the top 8 sports stories on a very busy sports day! Eric Edholm (NFL.com) makes his weekly visit to discuss all of the NFL news! Little Piggy Tossers got a big shift when Tom Brady announced his retirement.

We have Breaking UW News just in time for our visit with Elise Woodward! We discuss Ryan Grubb and Breanna Stewart's next possible move. We have elevated Little Piggy Tossers to the next level; complete with sound effects and pig wrangling. We wrap up the show with one last thing.

Why can't we all just side with one another in the pain of the signifier?Hello again listener! From the flu-ish depths comes at you an almost  contagion-free installment of the Tossers, this time dedicated to Merriam-Webster's 2022 'Word of the Year': Gaslighting. We also have a first-time guest, Andrew, a master summarizer of whom we are still in awe.We introduce the term through a rough semantic history, from its humble beginnings to its humiliating present. We tried to watch the 1944 movie adaptation of  the play 'Gaslighting' (1938), which gave its name to the word. Sagi's delicate sensibilities didn't allow him past the halfway point. We can't all be heroes.Appearing both in public and intimate discourse, gaslighting reveals the fragile, not to say spurious role of a postulated interest/advantage by its perpetrator; something towards which the word devolved from its original meaning, which necessitated a lapse of time and precluded a lapse of reason. We see that the sexual relation is in a constant gaslighting state, and that the accusation proceeds to attack that very state... As Jake notes early on: 'gaslighting' in 'The Bachelor'-type miasmas often devolves to the "Let me do me" dancing-partner of the idiocy "you do you." Another route we tried to take was that of a purloined letter, the Poe story and Lacan-Derrida debate concerning the role of the "letter" as a medium of meaning, where the meaning remains hidden and yet somehow still acts upon the world by virtue of its marked absence(/lack/castration). The letter in Poe's story, as the signifier in (post-)structural linguistics,  proceeds by detours. Indeed not sooner does it come up that we take a detour away from it. Luckily, whoever pitched this idea must agree a priori that the letter/discussion arrived at its destination, since it always does that anyway... There are still some good Lacanian angles on the functioning of language with us desiring animals (the 'primacy of the signifier'  and the 'name of the father' in Lacanese).We also briefly discuss Trump and his 'gaslighting'; an accusation that collapses under the scrutiny of those that take great pleasure in "exposing" his "gaslighting machinations," and those that not only know, indeed expect him to make brazen, almost proud denials/lies (in the name of a worldview they hold like a middle-finger to the other group).So much for the uninteresting stuff. If you wanna hear the other stuff then you have to find an excuse to listen. Like a pebble, it loses its luster out of its original context.Stars on this one: Pervs R' Us and Beast And Sovereign

Bent News Central: doing our best to keep you bent! (Oh, and updated on the news...yeah that, too!)-Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Alice Cooper to 6 US dates in August!-Aerosmith cancels the rest of Vegas residency!-Rex Brown's Covid diagnosis takes him out of Pantera South America sweep!-Peter Frampton makes right deal!-Elton John quitting touring AND Twitter!-Axl Rose joins "Tossers Anonymous" and other curiosities!That link to the Phil Lynott commemorative Euro not! That link to the new song by The Church!We love our sponsors!!! Please visit their web sites, and support them because they make this crazy show go:Boldfoot Socks   https://boldfoot.comCrooked Eye Brewery   https://crookedeyebrewery.com/Don't forget that you can find all of our episodes, on-demand, for free right here on our web site: https://imbalancedhistory.com/  

Bent News Central: doing our best to keep you bent! (Oh, and updated on the news...yeah that, too!)-Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Alice Cooper to 6 US dates in August!-Aerosmith cancels the rest of Vegas residency!-Rex Brown's Covid diagnosis takes him out of Pantera South America sweep!-Peter Frampton makes right deal!-Elton John quitting touring AND Twitter!-Axl Rose joins "Tossers Anonymous" and other curiosities!That link to the Phil Lynott commemorative Euro not! That link to the new song by The Church!We love our sponsors!!! Please visit their web sites, and support them because they make this crazy show go:Boldfoot Socks   https://boldfoot.comCrooked Eye Brewery   https://crookedeyebrewery.com/Don't forget that you can find all of our episodes, on-demand, for free right here on our web site: https://imbalancedhistory.com/  

A surprising dumptser diving find that might prove we live in a simulation. A Sony GTK-X1BT bluetooth enabled party jukebox Hi-Fi speaker system. Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1513-dumpster-tossers-have-no-shame/ Youtube: Odysee:

The Materialists are…. Nigel Rudolph (Public Archaeology Coordinator, FPAN Central Region) For more info on FPAN please visit http://fpan.us/ We would like to thank…. The Florida Public Archaeology Network, The University of South Florida - Department of Anthropology, and The Crystal River Preserve and Archaeological State Park. For more info on USF Anthro Department please visit their website at https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/anthropology/ For More info about the Crystal River Archaeological State Park please visit their website at https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/crystal-river-archaeological-state-park Thank you to the band Have Gun, Will Travel for the use of their song Silver and the Age of Opulence for our intro music. For more information on HGWT please visit their website at http://hgwtmusic.com/ For questions or concerns about the podcast please email us at the materialistspodcast@gmail.com _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Materialists Podcast – Season 3, Ep. 4: Goodbye Gray Lady Huge thank you to the University of Florida - Preservation Institute Nantucket For more information on PIN go to: https://dcp.ufl.edu/historic-preservation/preservation-institute-nantucket-summer-2022-final-projects/ PIN 2022 final project link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMt_1rrYmk&t=4s Huge thank you to Dr. Queenchiku Ngozi!! You are an inspiration. For more information on Dr. Ngozi's artwork and cemetery project, please visit... https://www.queenchiku.com/ https://www.illuminationindarkness.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Nfj-v3SLHin3-sC1fUhqw  https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/queenchiku/ Please reach out and BUY her book: Illumination In Darkness Project: African American Cemeteries in Alachua County FL. Thank you to the Nantucket Historical Association For more info on NHA and their awesome archive go to: https://nha.org/ Thanks to everyone on the board of the Nantucket Cemetery Commission https://www.nantucket-ma.gov/274/Cemetery-Commission Thanks to The Green Lady for providing so much brain food. https://thegreenladydispensary.com/ Closing song Nantucket Girl's by The Tossers from their album Purgatory 2003 "Then I'll haste to wed a sailor and send him off to sea For a life of independence is the pleasant life for me But every now and then I would like to see his face For it always seems to me to beam with a manly grace With his brow so nobly open and his dark and kindly eye Oh my heart beats fondly towards him whenever he is nigh But when he says goodbye me love I'm off across the sea First I cry for his departure then I laugh because I'm free" -- Eliza Brock, 18th Century Nantucket Islander https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p5nKIPtcZw